From patchwork Fri Oct 8 13:53:29 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mel Gorman X-Patchwork-Id: 12545449 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467E0C433EF for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85D760FD8 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:54:36 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org D85D760FD8 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=techsingularity.net Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 791886B0078; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 7401F900002; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 656AE6B007D; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0014.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.14]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589166B0078 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin19.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9081816BB71 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:54:36 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 78673415352.19.92056C3 Received: from outbound-smtp15.blacknight.com (outbound-smtp15.blacknight.com [46.22.139.232]) by imf19.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F6AB002460 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail06.blacknight.ie [81.17.255.152]) by outbound-smtp15.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 483391C3E9D for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 14:54:34 +0100 (IST) Received: (qmail 7212 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2021 13:54:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stampy.112glenside.lan) (mgorman@techsingularity.net@[84.203.17.29]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPA; 8 Oct 2021 13:54:33 -0000 From: Mel Gorman To: Linux-MM Cc: NeilBrown , Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger , "Darrick J . Wong" , Matthew Wilcox , Michal Hocko , Dave Chinner , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Johannes Weiner , Jonathan Corbet , Linux-fsdevel , LKML , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 14:53:29 +0100 Message-Id: <20211008135332.19567-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20211008135332.19567-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> References: <20211008135332.19567-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 71F6AB002460 X-Stat-Signature: zbetcj91r5iufcez8wp4nwuzwipfq6i4 Authentication-Results: imf19.hostedemail.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (imf19.hostedemail.com: domain of mgorman@techsingularity.net designates 46.22.139.232 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mgorman@techsingularity.net X-HE-Tag: 1633701275-136928 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: The page allocator stalls based on the number of pages that are waiting for writeback to start but this should now be redundant. shrink_inactive_list() will wake flusher threads if the LRU tail are unqueued dirty pages so the flusher should be active. If it fails to make progress due to pages under writeback not being completed quickly then it should stall on VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/page_alloc.c | 21 +-------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 78e538067651..8fa0109ff417 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4795,30 +4795,11 @@ should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order, trace_reclaim_retry_zone(z, order, reclaimable, available, min_wmark, *no_progress_loops, wmark); if (wmark) { - /* - * If we didn't make any progress and have a lot of - * dirty + writeback pages then we should wait for - * an IO to complete to slow down the reclaim and - * prevent from pre mature OOM - */ - if (!did_some_progress) { - unsigned long write_pending; - - write_pending = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, - NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING); - - if (2 * write_pending > reclaimable) { - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); - return true; - } - } - ret = true; - goto out; + break; } } -out: /* * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ context and the * current implementation of the WQ concurrency control doesn't